Who among you, have been stopped at the tunnel of FOURVIERE when you try to crossFrance FROM North to South or the opposite way. For many hours, buried in your car, amidst noise, heat and exhausted, thinking “ My GOD may I finish my life here!»
Yes you remember, you stayed in LYON. Let me give a solution, you can walk round from South to North by BOULEVARD PERIPHERIQUE you cross the RHÖNE river to reach the other tunnel de la CROIX ROUSSE and join the best road. From North, before the tunnel take exit” VAISE” and drive along the SAONE river and join the highway at PIERRE BENITE. Everybody waited impatiently for a solution. The town council has resolved the problem, by a ROCADE. It’s a little longer but faster.
Yet, LYON, is not only a tunnel, despite the advertisement made for it each time during the major holidays. The term “Bouchon” (hold-up) is also used in the city for at least twenty typical coteries, where you can taste all kind of specialities made with pork’s, cream, butter, poultry and served with “BEAUJOLAIS” a famous wine which it’s called the third river with SAÖNE and RHÖNE.
LYON offers all kind of visits: Archaeological, our history going back over twenty centuries.
A splendid antic theatre is used every years for various spectacle, close to it a museum gallo-roman showing the excavations of the city. A large botanical garden greenhouse with exotic plants and millions of roses (the best season in spring). The centre of Interpol is situated beside. Children can also ride on pony, bus or mini steam train. A free zoo that includes most of the animals species of the worlds. A velodrom in the same place has been repaired for international races. In the old quarter, the district of “ST JEAN and GEORGES “ patrimony of the world by UNESCO. THE GEATEST Renaissance houses with cobbled pavements in EUROPE. You can enjoy many restaurants and dancing. Lyon is also a futuristic city with many technopoles of scientific research, education and industry. The challenge involves the goal to become an eurocity like BIRMINGHAM, MILAN, FRANKFURT, BARCELONA or GENEVA and also a great financial market (during Renaissance LYON was the first town in Europe to issue drafts).
Don’t leave before tasting the specialities, which enrich of our local tradition, silk, scarf or confectionery; it has been a great industry during the last XIX Th. century.
On the top of the hill, a golden virgin who protected LYON AGAINST the plague is a symbol for all the inhabitants. Every 8 of December, millions of lights glitter in the night.
The puppet “GUIGNOL” wish you a pleasant visit to our city and says farewell kids proverb said”everybody can be born in LYON, someone has to live somewhere else!
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